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1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen…

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/08/06

A while ago, I got reminded of the [Source:/Archive] 1984 RULES OF NETNEWS DEBATING at We are ALL Rich Rosen… that was posted in Newsgroups: net.flame, net.jokes (which had many ROT13 jokes) back more than 40 years ago by the (in)famous – depending on your point of view – Rich Rosen on his site [Wayback/Archive] neurozen.com – Rich Rosen’s web site (which is in a subfolder, I think because of humour, see [Wayback/Archive] Apache Tomcat/7.0.62 – Error report – this Apache Tomcat version 7 is has been end-of-life since the end of March 2021 :).

I regard is as both fun and insightful, fun for instance as all rules are rated “RULE #1”, and insightful for instance as this is a great quote for on a T-shirt:

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Posted in BITNET Relay, Chat, Development, DuckDuckGo, eMail, Fun, gist, GitHub, Google, GoogleSearch, History, Internet, Java, Java Platform, Meme, Power User, Quotes, SearchEngines, SocialMedia, Software Development, Tomcat | Leave a Comment »

Maps of windturbines in The Netherlands (kaarten met windmolens in Nederland)

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/07/06

Sources/maps:

I used it to OSINT a location of a picture that had water, a bridge and windturbines on it.

Queries:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] kaart windturbines nederland – Google Search
  2. [Wayback/Archive] kaart windturbines nederland – Google Image Search

You can make your own maps here:

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Posted in Data Visualisation, Google, GoogleMaps, Government, LifeHacker, OSINT - Open Source Intelligence, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Google AI: there are t’s in kilogram and kilogramme

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/23

Unlike SKYNET, actual Skynet is still far away: according to Google AI, there are t’s in both kilogram and kilogramme.

Screenshots mine as the Wayback Machine does not run the Google AI:

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Development, Google, LLM, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Desktop solution: I want to turn off ONLY the AI Summary in Gmail. – Gmail Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/06/22

Most solutions mention to disable all “Smart features” in order to not have the AI summary in Gmail, but that disables a lot more than just the AI summary.

Luckily I found the desktop solution in [Wayback/Archive] I want to turn off ONLY the AI Summary in Gmail. – Gmail Community to which I added steps, links and screenshots:

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Beeper — All your chats in one app

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/13

[Wayback/Archive] Beeper — All your chats in one app

Via a friend that mentioned Beeper to me.

On the list to try out somewhere during the year.

It is open source; some more links:

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Posted in Chat, Development, Discord, DVCS - Distributed Version Control, Facebook, git, GoogleChat, IRC, LinkedIn, Power User, Signal messenger, SocialMedia, Software Development, Source Code Management, Telegram, Twitter, WhatsApp | Leave a Comment »

default settings – How do I disable all AI features in Chrome? – Super User

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/05/11

Few places have the configuration for various platforms on how to prevent Google Chrome from installing the 4GB LLM model that got traction over the last few days. Luckily it is at [Wayback/Archive] default settings – How do I disable all AI features in Chrome? – Super User (thanks [Wayback/Archive] A-Tech and [Wayback/Archive] cachius):

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Posted in AI and ML; Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning, Chrome, Development, Google, LLM, Power User, Software Development | Leave a Comment »

Google Sheets actually has a ton of Excel compatible functions; wish the User Experience was better though

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/14

I have been using Microsoft Excel since it beat the Quattro Pro limitation of rows and columns with the version 12.0, on Windows more commonly named Excel 2007 (which also introduced a fully new user experience including the vertical screen estate eating Ribbon – the main reason I like 16:10 monitors over 16:9 ones) and on Mac as Excel 2008.

It means I have like 20 years of Excel experience not just on what it can technically can do (see my Excel posts) but especially on the user experience bit.

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Posted in Development, Excel, Google, GoogleDocs, GoogleSheets, Office, Office 2007, Power User, Software Development, User Experience (ux) | Tagged: | Leave a Comment »

“Your YouTube Comments” is part of “Google – My Activity”

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/06

It took me a while to find, but the canonical URL is Source: [Wayback/Archive] Google – My Activity – Your YouTube Comments

It was a relatively short queste:

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Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/03

This works in other browsers too; you can sync between them if you logon to it: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic cookie consent – Chrome Web Store

Via: [Wayback/Archive] #607: De opgesmukte maan | Tech45 Podcast

Site: [Wayback/Archive] Super Agent – Automatic Cookie Consent

Note: I think, but need to check, this only works for sites for which you have JavaScript enabled.

–jeroen

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Notes for a Bookmarklet that fixes Wayback Machine archivals of Google Search queries

Posted by jpluimers on 2026/04/01

For a while now, after initially displaying archived Google Search results, it changes the Wayback Machine archival URL after displaying.

Examples:

  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/web/20230322163526/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+last+delimiter
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT
  • https://web.archive.org/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/web/20230321192712/https://www.google.com/search?q=excel+textafter+textbefore+textsplit+site:https:%2F%2Fsupport.microsoft.com%2Fen-us%2Foffice%2F&google_abuse=GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION%3DID%3D3020867903a1f6fa:TM%3D1679426832:C%3D%3E:IP%3D207.241.225.236-:S%3DTSrpWMPwWKoNpiXh-oD21Q%3B+path%3D/%3B+domain%3Dgoogle.com%3B+expires%3DTue,+21-Mar-2023+22:27:12+GMT

I want to write a Bookmarklet that fixes these.

There is not much in the results of

[Wayback/Archive] “GOOGLE_ABUSE_EXEMPTION” “Wayback” – Google Search, but I think this happens when there is a high frequency Google Search archivals from the Wayback Machine.

–jeroen

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